November 30, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian civil war
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- The United States Central Command announces that the Free Syrian Army killed Islamic State caliph Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi during an operation in the Daraa Governorate in mid-October. (AFP via The Brussels Times)
- American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war
- Afghanistan conflict
- 2022 Aybak bombing
- At least 15 people are killed and 20 others injured in a bombing at a religious school in Aybak, Samangan Province. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Aybak bombing
- November 2022 Quetta bombing
- Three people are killed and 24 others injured by a Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber at a polio vaccination centre in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Spain letter bomb attacks
- A staff member at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, Spain, suffers minor injuries when opening a letter bomb that was addressed to ambassador Serhii Pohoreltsev. (Reuters)
Arts and culture
- UNESCO officially adds several inscriptions to its intangible cultural heritage list, including French baguettes, Korean talchum dance, and Chinese tea making. (BBC News)
Technological development
- OpenAI officially released the freely available generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, the stable release became available on 8th of August 2024
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Brazil floods and landslides
- Two people have been killed and thirty others are feared missing after a landslide in Guaratuba, Paraná, Brazil. (Sky News)
Law and crime
- Capital punishment in Singapore
- The Singaporean government approves legislation that will only allow the Court of Appeal to grant a last-ditch clemency petition prior to an execution on consideration or on the basis of new evidence presented by the defendant. (Al Jazeera)
Politics and elections
- Scott Morrison ministerial positions controversy
- The Australian House of Representatives votes 86–50 to censure former prime minister Scott Morrison for failing to disclose to the parliament and the public his secret appointments to a number of ministries during his premiership. Morrison is the first former Australian prime minister to be censured. (AP)